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Wisconsin is benefiting from millions of dollars in federal funding for the dairy industry.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Wisconsin, California, Tennessee, and Vermont are all each getting a share of 80-million dollars in Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives money.  University of Wisconsin is getting 18-point-four-million dollars.  Wisconsin can apply for up to 20-million dollars total.

Wisconsin State Representative Gordon Hintz will not seek reelection this fall.  The Oshkosh Democrat announced his decision on Twitter this morning.  Hintz has served in the Wisconsin Assembly for 15 years, serving as Minority Leader from 2017 to this past January.

ABOVE PHOTO: On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers (left) presented a check for $1,433,093 to fund construction of a new 20-bed homeless shelter on Stout Road to Padraig Gallagher, executive director of SteppingStones of Dunn County, and Menomonie Mayor Randy Knaack (right). Menomonie is among four Western Wisconsin cities to be awarded a grant from the state’sNeighborhood Investment Fund program. On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers presented aceremonial check to Mayor Randy Knaack and Padraig Gallagher, executive director of SteppingStones of Dunn

Madison’s superintendent wants lawmakers to use some of the state’s record-surplus to send more money to schools.  Superintendent Carlton Jenkins said schools across the state could always use more money.  Wisconsin is on-track for a record four billion-dollar surplus by next summer.  Governor Tony Evers and Democrats across the state want to spend the money on schools, while Republicans at the Capitol are talking about using some of the surplus to cut taxes.

The coronavirus rules in Wisconsin are changing.  The state’s Health Secretary yesterday said she fully supports the latest guidelines from the CDC.  Those guidelines relax the mask rules for most counties in the state.  Health Secretary Karen Timberlake says the new rules mean masks are only required for people in areas with “very high” coronavirus levels.  In Wisconsin that means six small, rural counties in northern or western parts of the state.

It’s jail time for a Minnesota man in a deadly 2019 ATV wreck.  A judge in Rusk County sentenced Brennan Plaisted to six months in jail.  Investigators say he was drunk when he crashed an ATV at a bachelor party back in 2019, killing a man.  In addition to the jail time, the judge ordered Plaisted to remain sober, and deliver a speech each year on the anniversary of the deadly crash.

The candidates running for governor and U.S. Senate in Wisconsin have some work to do.  The latest Marquette Law School Poll shows most voters don’t know most of the candidates.  Only Republican Rebecca Kleesich has 50-percent name recognition in the race for governor.  More than 80-percent of voters don’t know why Kevin Nicholson or Tim Ramthun are.  The poll says 62-percent of voters don’t know anything about Mandela Barnes in the Democratic race for U,S. Senate.  The rest of the crowded field

Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalizations are below 500 for the first time since last summer.  The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said just 487 people are in the hospital with the virus across the state.  That includes just 94 in the ICU.  You have to go back to early August of last year to find numbers that low. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is just now installing carbon monoxide detectors in all of its dorms.  The school yesterday said crews are doing all they can to make sure students are safe.  The move comes after a carbon monoxide leak at a dorm late Monday night sent 17 students to the hospital, and put about 400 or so out on the street overnight.  The school said, up until now, none of its dorms had carbon monoxide detectors.  UWM says building codes

Investigators in Wisconsin say what started out as a day of smoking meth led to a night of kinky sex, that eventually ended with a woman chopping a man’s body into pieces.  Prosecutors in Green Bay filed homicide and sex charges this week against 24-year-old Taylor Schabusiness.  They say she strangled a man last week while they were having sex.  After he was dead, prosecutors say she continued to perform sex acts on him, but she eventually decided to cut